Clinton Needs to Take Firm Stand to Insure Peace
If there is to be peace in the Middle East, the United States must exercise some “tough love.”
Peace is Possible But Not Likely
There is a widespread assumption that resolution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is an extremely complex issue, and that the United States has been and is the best hope for peace. The reality, however, is just the opposite.
Credit the Serbian People, Not NATO
As in 1989, it was not the military prowess of the western alliance bringing freedom to an Eastern European country, but the power of nonviolent action by the subjugated peoples themselves.
Huntington Guides Vajpayee in Washington
Global poverty today is no longer a legacy of the past; the new global poverty is not only the direct consequence of globalization, but an integral part of it.
Star Wars II: Don’t Delay It, Kill It
President Clinton’s September 1st decision to delay deployment of the Pentagon’s proposed National Missile Defense (NMD) system is an example of good policy and good politics.
Real Reform at the UN
Despite years of UN-bashing in Washington, the global organization remains one of the most popular institutions among U.S. voters.
Campaign 2000: Why is Military Spending Not an Issue?
The U.S. must recognize that preventive actions — diplomacy, contributing to global economic development, promoting political and religious freedom — that get to the root causes of conflict are the long-term paths to global peace and stability.
And the Next President of… Texas
One progressive’s recount of the Republican National Convention.
Camp David II: Clinton Should Pressure Israel, As Carter Did
It is highly unlikely that the upcoming summit between the United States, Israel, and Palestine at Camp David will the kind of positive results that came from the 1978 summit between the United States, Israel, and Egypt.
Ross Gelbspan on Global Warming
What is news is that the heating of our atmosphere has propelled our climate into a new state of instability.
A World Awash in Weaponry
Late last month, President Clinton announced the Defense Trade Security Initiative, the most significant loosening of arms-export controls since the end of the Cold War.
U.S. Policy Toward Jerusalem: Clinton’s Shift To The Right
The problem with Clinton’s view of Jerusalem is ultimately not a bias towards Israel, but a direct challenge to the authority of the United Nations and some of the most basic tenets of international law.
Moderate or Militant: Will the Real Dick Cheney Please Stand Up?
Before we can gauge how Cheney might perform as vice president, we will need a much more vigorous and detailed foreign policy debate than either Al Gore or George Bush have offered thus far.
The U.S. Must Pressure Israel to Compromise
As the Clinton Administration pushes for a high-level resumption of final status talks between Israelis and Palestinians, we are again hearing the mantra that both sides need to compromise, both sides cannot have everything they want and other familiar ex
Assad’s Mixed Legacy
The desire to maintain a course independent of overbearing Western influence, the insistence on having the Golan returned and a desire to maintain greater social equality than found elsewhere in the Arab world goes far beyond the late president.